FILM OPENS MARCH 25th IN NYC, APRIL 1st IN LA, AND EXPANDS NATIONALLY ON APRIL 8th

NEW YORK, NY (March 17, 2016) – GKIDS, the eight-time Academy Award®-nominated distributor of animation for both adult and family audiences, announced the English voice cast for APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD, the highly anticipated latest feature from filmmakers Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci. The English voice cast includes Paul Giamatti, Tony Hale, Susan Sarandon and J.K. Simmons. The original French language voice cast includes Marion Cotillard as “April”. A full breakdown of the English and French language casts can be found below. Both the English and French versions will play stateside when the film opens in New York on March 25th at IFC Center, and in Los Angeles at the Nuart Theater on April 1st. National expansion follows on April 8th.

APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD, which won Best Feature Film at the prestigious 2015 Annecy International Animation Festival, is a riveting sci-fi adventure which takes place in an alternate steampunk world. Set in Paris in 1941, the film follows a family of scientists on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum. All of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Ten years later, April lives alone with her cat, Darwin, and carries on her family’s research in secret. But she soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy and far-reaching conspiracy, and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered dirigibles and cyborg rat spies.

ABOUT GKIDS
GKIDS is a distributor of award-winning feature animation for both adult and family audiences. Since 2009, the company has scored eight Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations – second only to Disney/Pixar – with The Secret of Kells in 2010, A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita in 2012, Ernest & Celestine in 2014, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea in 2015, and Boy and the World and When Marnie Was There in 2016. Current and upcoming releases include Only Yesterday, from Isao Takahata and Studio Ghibli and April and the Extraordinary World, which will be in theaters nationally this April. GKIDS also handles North American theatrical distribution for the famed Studio Ghibli library of films, one of the world’s most coveted animation collections with titles Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and others. www.gkidsfilms.com